The contrast between the enthusiasm which brings together the BSides community and the burnout which impacts our professional lives is so blindingly obvious it's easy to miss. This talk will focus in on the key reason that so many burnout: the difficulty of being effective, and discuss ways we as a community can transform.

Bio:Adam is a technologist, entrepreneur, author and game designer. He's a member of the BlackHat Review Board and a principal program manager at Microsoft. He helped found the CVE and many other things. He is the author of “Threat Modeling: Designing for Security,” lead designer of "Elevation of Privilege," the co-author of “The New School of Information Security" and co-designer of "Control-Alt-Hack."